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Using the makefile aria2.mak, I successfully ported aria2 to Windows using the Debian MinGW cross-compiler. While aria2 compiles under native MinGW and Cygwin, the resultant executable was buggy using the supplied gcc version 3.4.5, and numerous unit tests fail.

After installing gcc 4.3.0 in MinGW using get_mingw.cmd and am now able to produce working binaries in my Windows environment. This leads me to believe that gcc 3.4.5 is not reliable under MinGW.

I've written the batch file xpsp3.cmd(updated 03-May-09) to automatically download and slipstream a standard Windows XP boot disk with Service Pack 2 and all post-SP3 security hotfixes.

It uses wget or curl (if either are found in the PATH), or your installed browser to download the updates. I have tested this with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. Other browsers should work, as well.

The batch file xpsp3local.cmd(updated 03-May-09) will update the copy of Windows XP that is installed on the computer you run the command on. You may wish to do this, if you do not have, or want, the machine you want to hotfix connected to the internet, or if you are unable to run Windows Update for some reason (for example, if Internet Explorer isn't installed, or doesn't work properly, due to a virus or similar mishap).

To slipstream the hotfixes, and burn the slipstreamed disk, I've created the makefile xpsp3.mak(updated 03-May-09). Details on usage below.

I've written the batch file xpsp2.cmd(updated 03-May-09) to automatically download and slipstream a standard Windows XP boot disk with Service Pack 2 and all post-SP2 security hotfixes.

It uses wget or curl (if either are found in the PATH), or your installed browser to download the updates. I have tested this with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. Other browsers should work, as well.

The batch file xpsp2local.cmd(updated 03-May-09) will update the copy of Windows XP that is installed on the computer you run the command on. You may wish to do this, if you do not have, or want, the machine you want to hotfix connected to the internet, or if you are unable to run Windows Update for some reason (for example, if Internet Explorer isn't installed, or doesn't work properly, due to a virus or similar mishap).

To slipstream the hotfixes, and burn the slipstreamed disk, I've created the makefile xpsp2.mak(updated 03-May-09). Details on usage below.

Here's my startup.cmd script I wrote to automatically change thr screen positions, and the default printer, whenever I change locations. I place this in the directory C:\WINDOWS\system32\repl\import\scripts, so it will be executed automatically when I login. It uses res_set to change the screen locations and resolutions.

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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%'
IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*FD1111DEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDE'
WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*FD1111DEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDE'
WITH GRANT OPTION;

Spammers found my MediaWiki based website, and flooded the site with over 1.2GB of link spam. To fix this, I locked down my site, so only sysops can change it, by adding the following to the end of my LocalSettings.php file:

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